Food and Tastes in Life @ BigFish

Steam Fish with Mushroom Pork

2009-04-07T07:00:00.000-07:00

A normal Sunday, we have to go back to Sg. Buloh (Mr. Slim’s parent place) for dinner. This Sunday, we were not going back! Hahaha~ sounds happy ya! Mainly was because it was a heavy rain day, and Mr. Slim going to Singapore the next morning. He needs to catch the flight by 8am, and he hasn’t packed his luggage yet. So, I decided to cook our dinner at home.
A simple one will do ~

Ingredients:
1. Fishes (2)
2. 4 shallots (chopped)
3. 4 cloves garlic (chopped)
4. 3 mushroom (sliced)
5. 200gm Pork (sliced)
Method:
*1. To make the fishes tasty – rub on 1/2 tsp Sesame oil and 1 tsp Oyster sauce.
* 2. To make the nice stocks – 1 tbsp of Shao Hsing Wine mixed with 1/2 cup water, marinate the sliced pork and sliced mushroom.
~ Pour over (*1 and *2) fish and let it marinate for at list 15min.
* 3. Fry the chopped garlic until fragrant.
Before steam ~ add 1 tbsp of Fish Sauce.
Steam the Fishes for 20min … garnish with chopped garlic and SERVE!

I’m lazy yet like to have dinner at home, so a plate of simple fried vegetable would be a nice dish to serve with the Steam Fish and mushroom pork.

Fried Vegetable

Earth Hour – ready… OFF!

2009-03-29T10:55:00.000-07:00

Saturday, 28th March 2009 both me and Mr. Slim getting so ready to join the Earth Hour!

I was carving what to have for dinner, because the Earth Hour start at 8.30pm and that was our dinner time. Dinner outside or at home?

Went out for appointment the whole evening, while I was on the way home, jam every where and rain cats and dogs! Thinking to cook at home, but nothing much left inside the fridge. Only a pack of salted sour marinated vegetables, small little slice of pork, dried mushroom, Organic Long Beans and still some eggs.

Argh! Finally I decided not to go out for dinner. And suddenly in my mind… candle light dinner would be the best choice to welcome the Earth Hour!

Here I come~

Ingredients:
1. 4 dried mushroom (soak and cut in slices)
2. 200g Pork, sliced
3. 4 cloves garlic (fine cut)
4. 300g Salted Sour Marinated Vegetables
5. Few long slices carrot
* Marinate Pork with ½ tbsp Oyster Source, 2 cloves of fine cut garlic and 1/3 tsp of pepper.

Methods:
1. Heat sufficient oil and fry the garlic with 3 tbsps of cooking oil until it changed yellowish.
2. Pour in sliced Pork and stir fry over medium heat until cooked.
3. Fry the Marinated Pork with the Salted Sour Vege, sliced carrot and sliced mushroom for at least 10 minutes.
4. Add 3 glasses of water and stew for 10 more minutes over law heat.
I believe you will have to add another bowl of rice if you serve with this!

This is the most easier way to ready the long beans and eggs. What else, easy and mouth watering!
Diced Long Bean with Stir Eggs

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~We have everything ready to be served on our dinning table before 8.30pm.

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~8.30pm sharp! Off the Light!!!

Candle Light Dinner Serve!

My memorable Birthday

2009-03-27T12:07:00.000-07:00

Oh wow, Mr. Slim came home late on Tuesday. So, I didn’t cook and we went dinner at the food stall near by our house. Hmmm… in a sudden he told me that he has booked a table in Traders Hotel, Gobo Upstairs and Sky Bar to celebrate birthday for me! Gosssh… surprise again!

But my first reaction on what he planned was ~ NO, NO! Too expensive and now economy is so bad. I even suggest I want to cook at home! Haha~
This cleaver guy has reaction in the other way round so fast ~ “Cannot cancel, because I have booked a birthday cake there! And this place, introduced by a Blogger (Kampung Boy City Gal), should be very nice” ~
Aaarggh, kill me, he actually wanted to go this place since long ago, and I always reject him. Now this time, what a good reason for him! He even put up blogger’s name to heat up my urge, what else I can say…

So, I just prepare my heart to be there for a nice dinner. I brought my little baby to done his first hair cut (puppy). Done some phone calls, met a friend for discussing on Share- Stock Market stuff. Then I came home, met Mr. Slim online and he told me he want to go home earlier to avoid jam. That was only 5pm plus. Then I went for shower and get my own ready with Casual Smart dress up, he reached home like 30 min after he said bye on the MSN. Wow… so punctual, and never been so punctual ever since!

I thought we could get up the car right after he took his good shower, see him feeding the puppies, and at the same time he asked me, why am I getting myself ready so fast? The dinner actually booked for 8pm. And he wants to complete his unfinished work before we leave home for dinner. (Aarrggh! Want to bang my head on the wall!)

Anyway, that was a good place for romance fine dinning…haha!

~The Organizer: Mr. Slim.
*Gobo Upstairs, Traders Hotel.

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* Sky Bar @ 33rd Floor

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10 minutes before Birthday, a surprise couple showed up in front of me! Gosh… unbelievable!

~Surprise couple in my birthday (Chris and KC)

~present from Chris and KC for my neck pain.

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A surprising gifts from my friend a little tinny birthday cake! But it was too full after the duckling lunch, we didn’t manage to cut the cake there…

~gifts from Keem.

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I thought everything was end, and waiting Mr. Slim to come home from work for dinner… My god, he has a bouquet of Roses hold on his hand. Another surprise again!My best friend from Texas and Sabah, ask Mr. Slim to surprise me with that… My god, too lovely!
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~ From Mr. Slim, Hui Sia, Ping Long and Pei Ying.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ bigfish!

Present in the year of 2009

2009-03-23T10:49:00.000-07:00

We have just past our 7th Valentines’ Day. A lot of friend told me, is very unbelievable that we still have Valentines’ Day present after 7th years. So, what should I say… I think I’m still the lucky one, as we been together more than 7 years, but we celebrate every Valentines’ Day ~ no miss!

This time, My ideal present for my Mr. Slim is a WATCH! For a guy like him ~ an interior designer, he always have to work like “RUSH HOUR”, guess a nice and good watch is very important for him to be a designer. Haha ~

I was having big headache few days before the Valentines’. I actually decided to get my Mr. Slim a watch, but I didn’t actually know what kind of watch he likes. Too plan and too messy, he doesn’t like, too big and too thick, not suitable. Too fancy and too complicated, he won’t wear… huh ~

Day before the Valentines’ Day, I have finally make my decision with getting a silver bracelet and simple internal fittings design Seiko watch for him. Unexpected… he likes it very much, not too heavy, not too fancy, not too big and JUST NICE!

Guess what… my Mr. Slim gave me a big surprise this year! He came down from the car with a white plastic bag, that was a bottle of white wine ~ lovely! And also another black plastic bag which I thought it was from a Hardware Shop. Out of my expectation, there was a black color box inside the plastic bag, and with the pictures on the box, obviously I never expect he bought me a set of Knives (ZWILLING J.A.HENCKLES - Twin Pollux) as my Valentines’ Day present! Gosssh… professional and expensive!

No Doubt, I love to cook, and Twin Pollux knives set is purposely made for Asian Kitchen – for my Bigfish Cook Book!

New Living, new life begins

2009-03-16T07:09:00.000-07:00

Moving to new house currently … guess it been more than a year I don’t even have time to enjoy my blogging. Feel so sorry to all my blog’s reader and friends.
Posting up some of my Little Sweet Home photos here:~

It is a quiet and nice place to live with, a good and peaceful environment.
From a condominium to a Terrace, we actually spend quite a bit time to get use to here.
We settled down in since few months ago, we decided to have clean and tidy furniture to be placed in the living, dinning and kitchen.

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Then for our puppies, they use to live in the condominium, but now they have bigger ground outside the house, inside the car porch to play around. Our female dog even got pregnant, and gave birth before the Chinese New Year’09.

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Over the days and months, our house becomes a good place for gathering, eat and drink…

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We had our first Chinese New Year here, my mom and brothers were here with us. We had our first Chinese New Year Eve Dinner - “Tuan-Yuan-Fan” here.

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Spring Onion Sambal Pork

2008-03-22T07:58:00.000-07:00

Oh dear all… how to explain I miss every one here and couldn’t have a free time to let me sit down like tonight here!
I’m BACK and really back…

Ingredients:
1. Pork 250gm (sliced)
2. Spring Onion (sectioned)
3. 1 Red Chili (sliced)
4. 4 Cloves Garlic (grated)
5. 4 shallots (grated)

Marinate Pork:
* Some chopped garlic and shallots, corn flour, pepper.

Methods:
1. Heat up 2 tbsps cooking oil, fry grated garlic and shallots until fragrant.
2. Pour in Marinated Pork, stir fry with low heat (5 min)
3. Add in sliced Chili and fry until become fairly dry.

If you remember I made the Sambal Shrimp Paste few weeks ago…

I have kept the some of my Home Made Sambal Shrimp Paste in the fridge and using it whenever I want to have my dish in a little spicy way.

Basically, we can easily find this kind of Sambal Shrimp Paste is selling in the Hypermarket, but mostly added a lot of preservative to prevent mould. Home made Sambal Shrimp Paste is always healthier without the preservative. If we keep it in the right way, the Sambal Shrimp Paste can even keep for at least a month.

Follow the steps below; you can always keep the Home Made Sambal Shrimp Paste fresh and longer.

How to keep the Home Made Sambal Shrimp Paste longer?
* Use clean and dry spoon to scoop out the needed portion.
* Make sure our fingers or hands do not touch on the Sambal Shrimp Paste.
* Keep inside the meat tray in the fridge.

Home For Year of RAT

2008-02-17T22:52:00.000-08:00

Back Home to ~ Land Below The Wind – SABAH…

Let me share with you on my Chinese New Year ‘08 trip back home in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
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During this trip, I planned to have tons of mom’s recipes for my blog’s update. But I was struggling to keep up with the preparation of the dishes, and worse of all, I totally forgotten to take photos as I was overcome by the aromatic and mouth watering dishes. All I know
during that period of time was to eat when it was freshly served!

Well, at least I manage to take some priceless sceneries and fresh seafood which I really love. .
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Mt. Kinabalu
It is world famous mountain and the tallest in South East Asia.
It is about 2.5 hrs drive from Kota Kinabalu city. Throughout the journey, it’s all paddy field countryside.

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Tanjung Aru Beach
Panda and I went to the famous Tanjung Aru Beach in K.K (Kota Kinabalu). Weather was hot… Panda wanted to go for Cool Drink.

Don’t surprise if you hear beer in Sabah is cheap and unbelievable! No doubt… we order a big bottle of Heineken. The waitress told us RM24 a bottle and she persuaded us to get another bottle because they charge only RM25 for 2 bottles. Unbelievable right!

It is only 10 min away from my house. Sitting outside the Bar… holding a glass of beer in the evening and looking at people playing water ski. I bet we will never find this scene in the City of K.L.

~ RM24 (1 bottle), but RM25 (2 bottles)

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~ Enjoying the natural Beach … lovely sunset!
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TAMU (Morning Market)
In Sabah, we call the Morning Market as TAMU, and we normally practice going to TAMU for fresh food market shopping. Fresh Vegetables, Seafood, Meat and etc… Prices are cheaper and better quality compare to those normal markets.

The best part is … BARGAIN and BARGAIN and BARGAIN!!!

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Here are some Unbelievable Prices: ~

~Prawns~
11 big prawns cost only less than RM20.
* Mom complaint, normally she only pays less than Rm15… huh…

~Look at those Prawn Roes

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~Fishes~
1kg “Sek-Pan” (Sea bass) cost only less than RM15,
1kg “7 Xing-Ban” (Grouper) cost only less than RM40.
*Mom said, price increase is because of Chinese New Year, if not she normally pay less than RM10 for 1 fish.

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~Crabs~
A bunch of crabs (8 crabs) cost only RM15.
*Dad grumble because he normally only pay RM8 for 6 fresh crabs.

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~Cockles~
A bunch of medium size Cockles cost only RM2.
Take 3 bunches cost RM5 ONLY!!!!!

* My brother said if we are willing to spend sometime to go to the seaside near the mangrove area, we can more of it for Free!!!!

Manukan Island
This island is famous in KK among the locals. It takes about 15 min by speed boat.
It has soft sand and the clarity of the water is wonderful.

Stilt Houses
Most Sabahan stayed in this kind of houses before.
But these houses are coming to an extinct as there is so much development in the city

BACK from Sabah!

2008-02-11T10:28:00.000-08:00

Dear every one,

I'm BACK!!! Miss you all a lot here...
Just got down from flight and done my nice shower!

Was a very nice and meaningful festive holidays back home in SABAH this time.
Lot of things to share... but I'm so tired now... will update you all after "I RECHARGED MY BATTERY"!

BigFish

Happy Chinese New Year

2008-02-02T22:13:00.000-08:00

Dear all,

I'm going back home (Land Below the Wind - Sabah),
To celebrate Chinese New Year.
See you all and Wish You all ...
Greatful Happy Chinese New Year.

Fried Egg with Long Bean

2008-01-30T10:22:00.000-08:00

Simple and just fried…
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When your mind is some time too lazy to think of what to cook… this dish is definitely suitable when we are lazy… hahaha :)
* Just diced the long beans and stir an egg with some Soya sauce.

This is the Organic Long Beans I bought from Tesco, and it was actually placed at the Organic Rack. And I found the prices between Organic and Non Organic are just about few 10 cents difference.

Ingredients:
1. 4 cloves Garlic (grated)
2. 5 pcs Long Beans (diced)
3. 1 Egg (stir well)

Methods:
1. Rinse Long Bean and diced.
2. Heat up 2 tbsps of oil, add sufficient salt, and fry Minced Garlic and Long Bean until fragrant.

3. Pour in egg evenly on the Long Bean.

4. Fry over high heat for 2 min.

When I was home last year, I remember my mom’s “mini-farm” planted some long beans too… and I remember that was an evening and mom asking to choose some matured long bean and asked me to pick down some for dinner.

Living in a big city like where I stay now… we don’t have a big house for gardening, don’t even have a backyard to plant anything like what my mom has. That is why I always appreciate when I have a chance to go home, and the next thing I will do is bring my camera and take down photos.

Here are some of my mom’s results from her backyard, and we even found some snails crawling at the vegetables, lady-birds hiding at the Bird Eye Chili Trees, and some time we even can see frogs hiding underneath the Pandan Leaves.

*Took ~ when I was home last year…

~ supply never stop whole year... :)

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~ greatest and hottest Bird Eye Chilies (light green color)

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~ froggie and x-name insect

~ insect and chili - same color

~ wondering is this a huge lady-bird baby?!

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~ different types of Lady Bird :)

~ Lovely Home Sweet Home ~

Land Below The Wind- Sabah

Black Pepper Pork

2008-01-28T13:14:00.000-08:00

Gravy~ Black Pepper Gravy~ I Love Black Pepper Gravy~

Believe or not… A plate of tasty black pepper pork will come along with a perfect marinate process.

I always love the black pepper gravy… but always so curious about why people only cook Black Pepper with Beef and too rare to cook with Pork.

BigFish Cook Book is trying to make a different here. If u read my previous post ~ I tried this dish before with Beef and shoot with a photo which didn’t actually shown the dish great.

This time, Panda help to shoot the photo properly with so many failure shoots. And I choose from those and I think this is the best among all.

Ingredients:
1. 250gm Pork (sliced)
2. 1 Red Big Onion (sectioned)
3. 5 cloves Garlic (grated)

Marinated:
Pork – some Black Pepper, Corn Flour, Sesame Oil and some brown sugar.

Black Pepper Seasoning:
Mix some Corn Flour, 1 tsp Black Pepper, ½ tsp White Pepper, ½ tsp Brown Sugar, Black Soya Paste and Grated Black Peppers with ½ rice bowl water.

Methods:
1. Heat up 2 tbsps cooking oil and fry grated garlic until fragrant.
2. Pour in Marinated Pork and stir fry for 5min.
3. Add sectioned Red Onion and fry together.
4. Pour in Black Pepper Sauce and stir well, fry for another 5min.
5. Garnish with some Chinese Celery and Serve!

Trust me, no matter how good the gravy, the pork have to marinate nicely and at least for 20min. And you will find absorption of every pieces of sliced pork taste really good from Inside Out!

I prefer to use the Red Big Onion instead of the normal Onion. The color is nicer and the smell stronger.

Fried Long Bean with Pickle Radish

2008-01-26T09:09:00.000-08:00

That was a night, we worked late and came home late…

Panda suggested me not to cook and we eat outside because both of us worked late. But finally I told him about my mood of cooking that night was like extremely high… and we both agree that we take some light good first. Then I will go home and cook the dinner.

So we had dinner after 9.30pm that night. This fried long bean is one of the dishes I had from my BigFish Cook Book. It is so simple… for a working lady like me, always hope to cook at home, but time is so tight. I bet this simple and easy recipe is definitely suit to me some times.

This idea was getting from the Fried Egg with Pickle Radish (Choy Bor). A lot of people like to have Fried Egg with Pickle Raddish to serve with Porridge. And I think this dish helps a lot to make our appetite better.

*Less Oil and Healthier! Can either serve with Rice or Porridge …

Ingredients:
1. 4 cloves Garlic (grated)
2. 50g Pickle Radish - Choy Bor (grated)
3. Long Bean (sectioned)

Methods:
1. Rinse Long Bean and sectioned.
2. Heat up 2 tbsps of oil, fry minced Garlic and minced Choy Bor until fragrant.

3. Pour in Long Bean and stir fry till cooked.

4. Add in sufficient salt, fry over high heat for 1 min.

Non Spicy Curry Prawns

2008-01-23T12:10:00.000-08:00

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Ingredients:
1. 15 Fresh Chilies
2. 7 Medium Shallots
3. 4 Garlic (Big)
4. 1 stalk Torch Ginger
5. 3 Stalk Lemon Grasses
6. 1 big piece Giner
7. 2 stalks Curry leaves
8. 6 Bird Eye Chilies
9. Some Star Anise
10. 8 Lady Fingers
11. 2 Tomatoes (sectioned)
12. 1 Round Brinjal (sectioned)
13. 3 Stalks Spring Onion (sectioned)
14. 2 Stalks Chinese Celery (sectioned)
15. 20 medium size prawns

* Blended – Fresh Chilies, Shallots, Garlic, Ginger, Torch Ginger and Bird Eye Chilies.
* Cut -Tomatoes and Round Brinjal into cubes.
- Spring Onion and Chinese Celery (1 inch)
* Trim and cut the back of the prawns and deviant.

Methods:
1. Heat up Frying-pan with 5 tbsps full cooking oil.
2. Fry Blended Ingredients until fragrant. (at least 20min)
3. Add Curry Leaves and “pat kok” flower, fry for another 10min.
4. Add 2000ml water and mixed well “Serai” with all ingredients.

5. Pour in Brijal, Lady Fingers, Tomatoes, Spring Onion and Chinese Celery.
6. Add sufficient salt and Brown Sugar, then pour in Prawns.
7. Simmer for another 15min and SERVE!
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Some of my friends love curry but yet they can’t take too spicy!
That was a potluck gathering we had in a friend’s house. And I have made a Curry which is not spicy and I was trying to make the curry without adding those ready made Curry Powder.

With all the raw ingredients I bought… went through blending and cutting. I was also making my own seasoning taste for the curry. I was quite happy that the Curry turn how reddish, not too oily and yet not too spicy…

And this recipes ~ NOT USING COCONUT MILK...

Reserve:

(1/2 rice bowl) Blended Ingredients.
With the reserve blended ingredients, I decided to have another recipe for the prawns.

Ingredients:
1. 30g Shrimp paste (Belacan)
2. 3 Stalk long bean (cut 1 inch)
3. 15 medium size prawns (remove heads and shell)

Methods:
1. Heat up Frying-pan with medium heat, fry shrimp paste until fragrant without oil.
Pound or grind Shrimp Paste with a little bit water.
2. Heat up Frying-pan with 3 tbsps full cooking oil.
3. Fry Blended Ingredients until fragrant. (at least 20min)
4. Add shrimp paste and stir fry until mixed well.
5. Add Prawns and fry evenly together with Long Bean.
6. Add sufficient salt. Stir fry for another 5min and SERVE!

My BigFish Cook Book

2008-01-21T14:06:00.000-08:00

Since last Thursday, is been few days already, haven’t been posting my recipes on blog… huh… getting frustrated now! I was so busying to figure out ways just to improve my blog. The problem with my Photo Shooting and Making nice template are giving me a big challenge.

As a new blogger, I think I get addicted over here! :)

Comments from friends and Foodiest …
Very much appreciate to every one here and I have made up my mind to improve my blog page template soon.

1. Why I want to set up a Blog?
This is really important for me to drive ahead. In the very beginning, I bet every one here are like me ~ wanted to set up a blog for SHARING, and Learn new things. Make a habit to note down anything which is actually interesting and warming your soul. But after some times, I found most of the thing that make me smiling inside out to share here are my Home Cooking and Recipes. I feel extremely proud with my own creations and also the modified recipes whenever it served on the dinning table.
I have found my answer even obvious after some times of carving. Opinions given by lot of friends, and I’m sure that I’m the lucky new blogger because I got to know some bloggers and added them into my MSN as well.
* Especially from Big Boy Oven (Sid), my friend who works in MPH Publisher (Lawrence), and also a designer he is my ex-schoolmate (Hakkison). Their opinions are really helping me a lot.

2. Food Blog – How should I present a food blog.
Eat out food or Home Cook Food? My blogging are mainly about my Home Cook Food and Recipes. Friends’ opinion, that I have to actually make a brand and a unique name which is easier for others to remember me.
* So I stick back to my lovely nickname as BigFish.

4. Template and Theme Color.
Keep the design clean and nice to read.
* Don’t use Eyes Killing Fonts and Color.
** This is the very first thing that I can do up to the stage now ~ to change my blog looks clean and comfortable.

5. Photo Shooting.
After College and quit my design job. Is been ages I never keep myself updating with the Photo Shooting matter. All my photos are just simply shooting without any side preparations most of times.
But since I started to add my first Food Blogger (CookingMonster) in my list, from there I started to know foodiest from all around the world. The very first blog which really gave me a strong impression is Taste Like Home (Cynthia’s blog). Her photos are all serving with well food styling. Another one is Big Boys Oven (Sid), and I been chatting online with him few times, and he was telling me about the dinning set like bowls and plates chosen are important for Food Photography too.

* I will have to get back to my skill from now, try to shoot more and practice more to make my dishes come out with nice lighting shoot.
* I started to buy nice dinning set to make my food present nicer.
* Might have to set up a small shooting area in my house with some simple lighting equipments.

I’m looking forward from every one here to give me more opinions and also comments. I will try to make my improvement step by step. I am looking forward to get my own domain~ when the “clicks” is there!

Please forgive me if you found my blog has some changes, because some times it will be “under construction”.

Looking forward to step ahead from decent to better…

~ Happy Blogging ~ Cheers!

Blogs below are those I always visit because of their nice photographs. :)
1. Oh for The Love of Food
2. Steamy Kitchen
3. Audrey Cooks
4. A Whiff of Lemongrass
5. Food for Thought
6. Imbi and Itchy

The Making of Rice Wine

2008-01-17T23:44:00.000-08:00

Making dish with Glutinous Rice wine … try this and you will never regret!

Lot of friends asking~ is Glutinous Rice Wine same as the normal rice wine. For me, I think there’s bit different in such a point of view on ways and methods of transforming, but always fermented and rice-based.

Since questions asked, I was actually thinking to make my own Home Made Glutinous Rice Wine. I called up my mom and some friends to ask them about the process and things to ready. Then I found out … the whole process taking a few weeks to just get a little Rice Wine to be done.

Finally, I shed off my thoughts to make my own Wine at home, and also started to search online to look for more information… here are some photos and information I found.
Kadazan Method and China Method

I’m a Malaysian from the Borneo Island - Land Below the Wind, Sabah. So I believe my mom’s methods of making wine are the mixture of the two Traditions ~ China method and KadazanDusun Method.

Here they are Steps to make the Glutinous Rice Wine:

* Step1:
Ingredients: 1.5 kg long grain Sticky rice
In a big container soak the rice in water for at least 12 hours or over night, making sure you cover all of the rice.

* Step2: Steam
Sticky rice for 20 minutes or until just cookedRinse and wash the rice thoroughly then place evenly into steamer. Using chop sticks stab with holes for more even steaming.

* Step3: Allow the cooked sticky rice to cool down
Rinse and wash thoroughly under cold running water, make sure to separate all the individual grains. Drain.

* Step4: Ingredients: 1 pkt dried yeast (2 heaped Chinese soup spoons)
Add and mix yeast and sticky rice into ceramic vessel - save a little for step 5

* Step5: Pat down the sticky rice and level
In the middle make a small hole and sprinkle the rest of the yeast inside and around

*Step6: Place lid and store in dry warm place, undisturbed for the next 36 hours

If need wrap up in thick towels, sheets or blankets

* Step7: Wine is ready when vessel is tilted and rice separates from the sides

If you can not see the "freshly fermented wine" in the hole then replace lid and kept fermenting

Here you are, naturally sweet fermented home made Glutinous Rice Wine!!!

These are what my mom told me when she wanted to make the Wine at home:-
Many taboos have to be observed during the making of rice wine. Thus one is not allowed to swear or fight during the cooking process, or to talk bad and loudly. Other taboos are connected to practical hygiene, such as the rule that one cannot touch lemons or any other sour thing during the preparations. This could turn the wine sour. Hygiene is paramount, and in olden days often the whole family was banned from the house when mother prepared rice wine.

Often a piece of charcoal, or a small knife called is placed on top of the jar with the fermenting rice, to prevent bad spirits from entering the recipient and spoil the wine – lihing, being an entirely natural wine, will turn into vinegar when left exposed to air.
*I still remember… I was really young and still studying. Mom making her rice wine and during her first checking time, I was standing beside her and saw her taking out a small knife which placed on top of the container. Then the next thing she asked me to do is “Keep My Mouth Shut”.

The three main ingredients that contribute to the unique characters of various wines are the grains, the water, and the liquor starter. Other ingredients that alter the color or taste of the final product may also be added.

Glutinous Rice Wine well knows as Sticky rice wine, traditionally, can be eaten as a dessert, with sweet sticky rice balls as a snack, drunk with a meal, but mainly the Chinese consider it as a "health food/drink".

Then from the research, I am so surprised that the local people of Sabah produced their own Rice Wine and done with beautiful packaging design for sale too.

Well known and labeled as Lihing Rice Wine.

Instand Noodle & Durians

2008-01-15T01:34:00.001-08:00

That was a night… and I was so wanted to cook my dinner.
But friends call and they wanted to have an Extreme Fear Factor Action that night… Go for DURIAN!!!

I am not a Durian lover, but still without cutting off their mode, I decided to go enjoy “the scene” with them too. Panda loves durians some times, but we were just had it a week before, so his urge was not so strong…

I prepared my stomach to fill with something before the Durian session, because the rest of our friends going to have Durians as their Dinner that night. I was so confused and didn’t know what to have as easy and light food… Then my brother came home and he cooked his instant noodle nicely, sitting at the sofa and serving with a cup of Milo. He is a BIG BIG EATER. Usually before my dinner done, he will just have a pack of instant noodle to full fill his urge while waiting for my cooking.

Then remind me also my mom always cook the instant noodles and added a lot of extra vege, eggs or meat to serve with. I always love it when I was at home last time… Instant Noodles but it is just More Than normal instant noodle!

I marinated the Beef with Shao Hsing Wine, and fried some chopped garlic with sesame oil. Then have the fresh vegetables. Ohhh… I swear you will love to have the Instant Noodles in this way!

* I swear ~ u will love this!

The King of Fruits~
Go with them for Duriansss… I found out that they are the greatest Durian Eater I ever found in town now!
*You ever see ppl standing there and eating non-stop until their face changed color!? Hahahahaa ~

This Durian Stalls is located at Ampang area, some where between Kosas and Bkt. Indah. Is a small internal Village belongs to Ampang area.

Service is Extremely Good! The boss is from North Malaysia and now staying in K.L. Very kind and honest! We normally have to call and ask him to reserve. So he will have his greatest stocks there to wait for us…

Here the DURIANssss!

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Glutinous Rice Wine

2008-01-13T03:25:00.000-08:00

Can imagine how busy I were for the pass 1 week, I have tons of pictures of my cooking, but no time to “decorate” them. So sad ~

So keen and wanted to share with you all about my cook books!!! Still every time I turn on the computer… Start with going up to blogger friends’ comment box, when I got those comments done nicely, that would be about time for me to rest already!

2 weeks ago, 1 of my ever good friend called me up and told me about her mom was making their own Home Made - Glutinous Rice Wine, and she reserved a bottle for me! Before I got the Wine home, again… the “CLOUDsss” came out from my mind, picturing myself in the kitchen again…cooking Chicken, Beef and etc with the Glutinous Rice Wine…
*This remind me of my mom, she always do that whenever she is free and start to chit chat with me about dishes and cooking at home.

Mom is a very sincere Buddhist, she never take Beef cos of the religion. Remember Mom’s Cook Book, and she has a lot of way to cook Pork and Chicken with the Glutinous Wine. But just not beef…

I’m bit different from mom, my family giving us 100% freedom to choose on our religion. Since very young, parents sent me to a Kindergarten under a Church in Sabah (my home town). That was the reason I became a Christian since that. I respect her as I don’t take Beef at home, but outside home… I have my 100% freedom to choose on whatever I wanted to have. Hehehee…

Learn from my Mom’s Cook Book, I’m going to try my BigFish Cook Book cooking the Beef with Glutinous Rice Wine.

Surprisingly, result was unexpected too GOOD…

Beef with Glutinous Rice Wine

Ingredients:
1. 200g Lean Beef (sliced)
2. Carrot (sliced)
3. A few pcs Curry Leafs
4. 1 stalk Spring Onion (cut 1 inch)
5. 1 stalk Parsley (chopped)
6. 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine
7. 4 cloves Garlic (minced)

Marinate the Beef~
1 little pinch of Salt, Pepper and Brown Sugar.
1 tbsp of Glutinous Rice Wine, Chopped Parsley and 1 tsp Sesame oil.
* At least 20min.

Methods:
1. Heat up frying pan with medium heat, and pour in 2 tbsps cooking oil.
2. Pour in Minced Garlic and curry leaves fry until fragrant.
3. Add in Marinated Beef and Sliced Carrot stir fry until cooked.
4. Mix 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine and mix with 2 rice bowl of water.
5. Add in Spring Onion, use medium heat to cook for 10 min.

Chicken with Glutinous Rice Wine

Ingredients:
1. 1 whole chicken tight (sectioned)
2. 50g Ginger (fine sliced)
3. 1 stalk Spring Onion (cut 1 inch)
4. 1 stalk Parsley (garted)
5. 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine
6. 4 cloves Garlic (minced)

Marinate the Chicken~
1 tbsp of Oyster Sauce, 1 little pinch of Salt and Pepper.
1 tbsp of Glutinous Rice Wine, Grated Parsley and 1 tsp Sesame oil.
* At least 20min.

Methods:
1. Heat up frying pan with medium heat, and pour in 2 tbsps cooking oil.
2. Pour in Minced Garlic fry until fragrant.
3. Add in Marinated Chicken and Grated Parsley stir fry until cooked.
4. Mix 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine and mix with 2 rice bowl of water.
5. Add in Spring Onion, use medium heat to cook for 10 min.

~Parsley is not only for Decoration~
You will love it to cook the Beef and Chicken together with Parsley. Chinese rarely use Parsley as cooking ingredient. Most of the time, we use Parsley only for decorating and make the dishes look nicer.

I got this idea from a guy friend who loves cooking and his wife doesn’t know how to cook at all. He used Parsley to cook Fish with Star Fruit. Then he told me Parsley smell lovely after grated and cook with anything.

2008 Year of RAT

2008-01-09T12:26:00.001-08:00

Chinese New Year is now right at the corner…
This coming Chinese New Year is the Year of RAT. According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, Year 2008 is a Chinese Brown Earth (Soil) Rat Year.

Here come our Chinese Friends… I know some start doing home decoration soon. I’m sure there are things that we will have to be sticking on the wall of our home like Spring Calligraphy, Couplet, Chinese Lime Trees and etc…

In the markets out there… sure there are people start selling Mandarin Oranges and Year Cakes (Nian Gao). Some of my friend’s parents even making their own Chinese New Year Cake. This is a type of food prepared from glutinous rice and consumed in Chinese Cuisine. It is traditionally most popular during celebrating the Chinese New Year. It is considered Good Luck to eat Nian Gao, it symbolized “Climbing Higher this coming Good Year”.

In Lam Garden, Panda’s parents are now preparing all the stocks for Chinese New Year shoppers too. Plants like Green Bamboo, Mei Hua, Money Trees and Wealthy Trees are all symbolized Wealth and Health.
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Sambal Shrimp Paste

2008-01-08T08:18:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. 20 Fresh Chilies
2. 10 Dried Chilies
3. 6 Medium Shallots
4. 4 Garlic (Big)
5. 60g / 80g Shrimp Paste (Belacan)
6. 1 Chinese Rice Bowl Dried Shrimps
7. 3 tbsps of Brown Sugar

* Heat up Frying-pan with medium heat, fry shrimp paste until fragrant without oil.
Pound or grind Shrimp Paste with a little bit water.
* Clean and Soak Dried Shrimps until soft.
* Blended – a) Fresh Chilies
b) Dried Chilies
c) Medium Shallots
d) Garlic
e) Dried Shrimps

Methods:
1. Heat up Frying-pan with 5 tbsps full cooking oil.
2. Fry Blended Ingredients a-d until fragrant. (at least 20min)
3. Add smashed Shrimp paste and fry for another 10min.
4. Add Blended Dried Shrimps and fry until mixed well with all ingredients.
5. Pour in another 2 tbsps cooking oil, stif fry for another 10min.
6. Add 3 tbsps Brown Sugar, stir fry.

** If you want spicier, can add few Bird Eye Chilies to blend with ingredients a-d.

Spicy Sambal Shrimps

2008-01-06T09:39:00.000-08:00

That was the eve of 2007 Christmas Eve, I felt something wrong with myself … I have tons of ingredients came out in my mind like slide pictures ~ a lot of ingredients popping up: Chilies, Onion, Garlic, Shrimp paste, Shallots… etc…

Oooorrrggghh… again ~ again… I hate this feeling, because I know… I know… I can’t control again! I have to make a move to Tesco, and get all those things, and this mode was driving me that I have to make my own Shrimp’s Sambal Paste done tonight.

I’m lucky cos Panda always very supportive and he give his tongue to become the most sincerely dishes tester for me all the time. I told him, I want to have my Shrimp’s Sambal done. Then the first thing come across in his mind is that I always have to chop so many ingredients hardly with using the knife. Then he decided to buy me a new blender to make my cooking preparation easier. Hahahaaa… I treat this as my Christmas Present for 2007. Surprisingly, I was so satisfy with getting the new blender!

Told my friend about my Christmas Present and they laughed at me crazily…
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That night, he went out for a friend’s wedding dinner and I stayed home. I was so keen that I have to make my Mission Complete! Straight after dinner, I start my preparation…
Called my mom at first place, to make sure I have all the ingredients prepared correctly. Oh well, here I have to praise my mom about her cooking … she is just too gorgeous with her lovely hands. I never seen her failed with any dishes with “My MOM’s COOK BOOK!!!” Any dishes cook by mom are all lovely ~

I started from 9.30pm to clean all the ingredients. First thing, rinse and drain the Dried and Fresh Chilies. 30 Chilies … have to clean all the seeds! Orrrghhh… I was so regret for cleaning the seeds without wearing GLOVE! My hand was so HOT and SPICY … it last me for at least 5 hrs!!!

*Warning ~ Pls clean the Chilies Seeds with GLOVE!
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*Warning ~ Pls clean the Chilies Seeds with GLOVE!

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* My 1st Sambal Shrimps DONE~

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Methods … to be continue ~

3 Dishes 1 Soup (Dinner)

2008-01-04T01:09:00.000-08:00

Life is busy some times, but still I will try to get some times out in few times a week to have my Big Fish Cook Book mission completed. Simple and yummy dinner will do…

*Chinese always like “3 Dishes and 1 soup” ~
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Fried Bitter Gourd with Eggs

Ingredients:
1. 1 bitter gourd (sliced)
2. 2 eggs (stir)
3. 4 cloves garlic (chopped)

Methods:
1. Rinse Bitter Gourd and cut into slices
2. Heat 2 tbsp of cooking oil, fry Chopped Garlic and fry until golden brown.
3. Add in Sliced Bitter Gourd and stir fry for 5min.
4. Pour over the stir eggs on top of the fried bitter gourd.
5. Fry with medium heat for 5min.

Sambal Onion Squids

Ingredients:
1. 5 medium squids (shallow criss-cross)
2. 1 Red Onion (shred)
3. 1 Tomato (cubed)
4. 1 Big garlic (chopped)
5. 1 Torch Ginger (Chopped)

Chili paste seasoning:
* 1 Big garlic, 5 shallots, 5 red chilies, 3 dried chilies – Blended

Method:
1. Make shallow criss-cross cuts on body of squids.
(marinate with chopped torch ginger and sufficient salt)
2. Heat 2 tbsps oil and Chili paste seasoning, stir fry until fragrant.
3. Add Onions, and squids. Add ½ of water, stir-fry until cooked.
4. Dish up and Serve!

Fried Assorted Vege

Ingredients:
1. 150g Pork (slices)
2. 20 slices carrot (slices, flowers’ shape)
3. Red dates ~ Hung Zau (cut ½)
4. 10g Mushrooms
5. 4 cloves Garlic (minced)
6. 12 Bean Peas

Seasoning:
~ 2/3 rice bowl of water mixed with 1 tsp Oyster Sauce and 1 tsp Corn Flour.
~ Mix well with sufficient salt and 1 tbsp of Shao Hsing Wine.
(Marinate for at least 20min)

Methods:
1. Rinse Pork, cut into slices. Rinse Bean Peas, and mushrooms.
Rinse carrot cut into florests, rinse Red Dates cut into half.
2. Heat up 2 tbsps of oil, fry minced Garlic until fragrant.
3. Pour in Sliced Pork and stir fry till cooked.
4. Add in Sliced Carrots, Red Dates, Mushrooms and Bean Peas.
*Stir fry for 2 min.
5. Add in seasoning, fry over till fairly dry.

2008's Lucky Ring

2008-01-03T02:16:00.000-08:00

A Gift for us ~ End of year of 2007 & Beginning of 2008.

If you loved to have surprise, then you’re going to love my latest short story which was happened recently.

That was 30th December 2007, a really Lucky Day for me and Panda. We went to Tesco again to do our house hold and glossaries shopping. I bought a lot of prawns, vegetables and herbs… wanted to ready for the New Year Eve party in my friend’s house.

We walked out from Tesco Hypermarket, there are so many stalls selling ladies hand bags and jewelries. The very last stalls we were passing through, it was a Jewelries Stall which is selling all the Fake Gold Jewelries. This is the time… Panda shouted and ask me to “Watch Out! Why are you stepping on a Necklace? I think they dropped it”. The next step we did was we picked up the Necklace and pass to the sales girl there…

Who knows… they told us that Necklace was not belongs to them, and they passed it back to us. We holding it, and looked at it very seriously. I told Panda, this Necklace look so fake, because the design was old fashion and with the size, we both have the same thought ~ it shouldn’t be so light. But look into the Necklace clearly, there was a little number written there “916”. Huh… according to common sense “916” means gold, but on the other hand our thoughts were perfectly matches. ‘Weight too light’… since none of us can decide whether is real or it is not, then we decided to bring it over to Poh Kong Jewelry Shop near our house to find out the truth.

My God, Poh Kong’s sales person told us that this Necklace worth RM470, if it comes with a receipt, it worth even more than RM500!
Gooosssh… I felt so luckily that we didn’t throw it away just now ~

The whole 31st December, the last day of 2007, I was so busy getting preparing some dishes, we both put the Necklace aside and went to friend’s house.

Then 1st January 2008, we woke up late and Panda said, lets bring the Necklace out and we sell it off to the Jewelry Shop, so we go for Good Lucky Dinner tonight. Wow… then I was so happy and agreed with what Panda suggested! Since it looks so old fashion and none of us like the design. And the most important point is, we both felt like not good with wearing it.

Went to Poh Kong, and they told us if want to sell of the Necklace without receipt, they are going to deduct 25% due to depreciation. They have 1st option for us, with changing it to cash, but the value went even lower. The 2nd option they gave is exchange with other Jewelry in the shop, so we choose accordingly to the price they judged on the Necklace. We both felt like not so satisfy, and then walked in another Jewelry Shop (Wa Chan) which is just opposite to Poh Kong. Lovely ~ Wa Chan give us better deal! And they suggested we can pick from any Jewelries from Wa Chan which was a bit lower than the actual value.

Orrrggghh… Panda agreed and we started our Jewelry Exchange Shopping!!!
* Here it is… Lucky Gift for 1st January 2008.

A nice beautiful Gold Ring...

~pictures taken by Panda

2008 Resolutions

2008-01-01T09:01:00.000-08:00

New year symbolizes good luck, prosperity and a good new beginning. It's the best time to analyze on our past mistakes and make efforts to achieve our desinavy goals.

~Make a Wish Here! Goals will come true~

1. Spend More Time with Family & Friends
I gotta brain wash myself for ~ Work shouldn't always come first!
* To have more time for “us” and my family in Sabah.
* To take care of my puppies more.

2. My Career
Reorganize my little tuition centre which i have lost and start all over again step by step.
*Done with small renovation. Now is time to canvass sales for the business when schools reopened.

3. Get Out of Debt
Money ~ a big source of stress in my life last year!
* Will get rid from the debts I have and make my days brighter!
* Then only take out some little amount for Traveling ~ yeah!

4. Cute Car
I wanna get my Suzuki Swift! Don’t care… Dream must come true!
* *Friends says ... the car is too small ~ but I just LOVE IT so much.

5. House
I dont want to store my "age rubbish" any more!
*I gonna brain wash myself to throw away those things which I kept for ages. Keep the house look simple and nice!
* Find a suitable house for “us” and make sure it is not over budget.

6. Quit from Unhappiness
I wanna refrain from being stressful and unhappy!
I want myself to be happier and enjoy everyday in my life.
*This will make myself look more pretty and confident!

7. Enjoy Life More
I will proceed with my new hobby~ My BigFish Cook Book on the blog and make it nicer.
Therefore I will have more creation on my own recipes whenever I have time!
* Note down every interesting and lovely things I had in my daily life!

8. Learn New Things
I am going to learn on how people do so well in SOHO business and start mine from step by step too!
*Start from even a little or simple one will be a Good Start for me!

9. Slim and Slimmer
I wanna start back my Regular exercise ~ swimming!
~I'm reaching the age of 30 ....... dangerous!
*No Extra Pounds for 2008!

10. Get Organized
Organize myself from top to toe all over again.
I thought I’m very organized all the while, but found out a lot of things goes wrong because of my wrong thoughts.
*I will get myself force-organize to make my Resolutions Success this Year!

2008 Happy New Year

2007-12-31T00:41:00.000-08:00

Dear all blogger and friends...

Happy New Year !!!

Dried Curry Prawns

2007-12-30T11:46:00.000-08:00

iSome people said, if the weather is cold… is great to gorge on Spicy Cuisine.
But in Malaysia (Hot Weather country), we have all different races living together, although weather is all the while HOT. Still there are a lot of Malaysians like Spicy Food!
~ You’ll be Sweating Soon Enough~

I believe that my BigFish Cook Book on Spicy Cuisine Recipes influenced by the many factors.
Malaysian curries typically use curry powders rich in coconut milk, shallots, ginger, belacan (shrimp paste), chilis, and garlic.
With the Prawns, Chilies (both dried and fresh), shallots, garlic and torch ginger I have in the fridge. I am NOT going to use Coconut Milk and Shrimp paste for my BigFish Curry Cuisine.

Ingredients:
1. 15 medium sizes prawns
2. 1 Red Onion (cubed)
3. 4 shallots (chopped)
4. 1 Big garlic (chopped)
5. 3 Red Chilies (chopped)
7. 2 Dried chilies (chopped)
8. 1 Torch Ginger (chopped)
9. 1 Tomato (cubed)
10. 1 stalk Chinese celery (cut 1 inch)

Methods:~ medium heat
1. Trim and cut the back of the prawns and devein.2. Season with sufficient salt and pepper.
3. Heat 4 tbsps cooking oil and sauté ingredients 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 until fragrant.
4. 4. Stir well BABAS Curry Powder (25g) and 1 tbsp Sour Plum Sauce with ½ bowl of water (stir fry 5 min)
5. Add in Tomato and red onion (cubed), plus 2 cups of water.
* simmer prawns together for 10min.
6. Add Chinese Celery 5 min before dish up.

Done successfully!

From the research...

There are other health and preventative reasons why spicy foods are good for you.

1. Naturally induce labor
2. Stimulating digestive system
3. Stimulating Contractions
4. Cancer-fighting and cancer-prevention

- A recent study shows that capsaicin can be used to fight pancreatic cancer. It slowed the growth of cancer cells and in some cases, even caused cancer cells to die off.
5. Alleviate inflammation

- Arthritis and psoriasis are cause by nerve damage and cause pain on joints. Capsaicin supposedly helps to ease that pain.
6. Relieve chronic pain
- In some cases, spicy foods containing capsaicin greatly reduced pain caused by headaches or osteoporosis.
7. Heart-health
- Cayenne and chili peppers can help to reduce cholesterol. Additionally statistics show that cultures that eat spicy foods (e.g. some Asian countries) frequently have a much lower rate of heart attack and stroke.

* (above: 4,5,6 and 7) From: http://www.slashfood.com/

Lotus Roots with Peanuts ~ Soup

2007-12-30T09:59:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. Spare Ribs (4 pcs)
2. 2 blocks Lotus Roots (sliced)
3. 50g Wolfberries ~ Ji Zi
4. 6 Red dates ~ Hung Zau
5. 4 Chinese Mushrooms
6. 1 Dried Squid
7. ½ rice bowl Peanuts

Methods:
1. Clean Spare Ribs, cut into cubes. Blanch in boiling water, rinse to remove scum.
2. Rinse Wolfberries, Red dates, Chinese Mushrooms, and squid.
3. Cut Lotus Roots into slices.
4. Simmer all ingredients with 2ltr water with electrical slow cooker.
5. Add sufficient salt.
*With low heat- for over night at least 6 hours.
*With High heat – for 4 hrs.

Dish up! Dish up! ~ SERVE!!!

Spicy Aroma Pork

2007-12-29T00:53:00.000-08:00

Personally, I love spicy food! When I cook, I like to use garlic, onion, shallots, hot pepper, chilies, etc…
I always feel like if adding or garnish with some of the spicy seasoning, it produces with nicer aroma and taste heavier.
I was curious about why people always making beef with onion and black pepper? But I didn’t have beef in the fridge that day, then something blinking in my mind that make me feel like I wanna create my own dish again with Pork. In fact, Big Fish Cook Book is time to add in some new cuisine again.
Then I start to marinate the pork with Bird Eye Chilies…

Ingredients:
1. 250g Pork (sliced)
2. ½ Red Onion (sliced)
3. 2 mushrooms (sliced)
4. 2 bird eye chilies (fine cut)
5. 1 Red Chili (sliced)
7. 2 Dried chilies (cut – 1 inch)
8. 3 Cloves Garlic (chopped)

*Marinate Pork with cut Bird Eye Chilies, ½ tsp Corn Flour, 1 tsp Oyster Sauce and 1/3 tsp brown sugar. (20min)

Methods:
1. Heat 2 tbsp oil in frying pan and fry chopped garlic until fragrant.
2. Add in Red Onion and sliced pork - stir fry over medium hear.
3. Add 1/3 cup of water, pour in the Sliced Mushroom, Dried Chilies and Sliced Red Chilies.
4. Stir fry for 10 min.

DONE with not too spicy but taste so good with a little spicy aroma !

Sg. Buloh Leprosy Settlement

2007-12-27T20:46:00.000-08:00

After chatting with my lovely blogger-mate, I decided to write about the place of my “Every Sunday’s Outing” to post it up here…

Here I come… as what I mentioned in my previous post, Sg. Buloh Nursery ~ Lam Garden is the usual outing place I have to go mostly for every weekend.

Since then only I found out there might be a lot of people thinking all the Nurseries in Sg. Buloh had shifted away to other places. So since last year, I found out the business which is operate by Panda’s Family is dropping. I guess this must be the main reason, because people out there do not know that most of the Nurseries are still there operating, and will not be shifting out so soon.

*The Valley of Hope*

This place is formally a Leprosy Control Centre (Leprosy Settlement).
The whole compound is about 500 aches. This settlement area was constructed during the British Colony in 1930s. Leprosy patients here live in a well constructed environment under medical supervision.

Surprisingly, the leprosarium community here is living under a well planned of their own ‘rules and regulations’ and great town planning. Residents here are living in an environment with mixture of races. They are Chinese, Malay, Indians and others. The communities here have their own school, social club house, police station, fire brigade and places for worship for different religions.

The Story Behind:
There were stories of patients who have struggled and psychological suffered. And here is the place the patients could live in humane surroundings.
The Leprosy Settlement has marked a very significant stage in Malaysian History in relation to medicine, architecture planning and social cultural aspects.

Under the well construction under the trustee of the Commonwealth Medical Trust, the houses here are mostly constructed with the design and idea of Garden City by Charles Crompton Reade from Australia. Houses are all small, constructed in about 15ft by 20ft ~ Living area, kitchen and washroom are connected.

Since years back, most of the residents here stayed with the plantation and farming as their main income resources. And now, the generations of at least 2 are still here continuing the Farming and Nursery business.

* More information from other sites:
http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/leprosy.html
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/11/10/lifefocus/19409808&sec=lifefocus
http://tsl8.blogspot.com/2007/09/sungai-buloh-lepers-settlement.html
http://www.leprosyhistory.org/cgi-bin/showdetails.pl?ID=338&type=lepann

* More Photos from other sites:
http://leongwk.multiply.com/photos/album/217/Sungai_Buloh_Leprosy_Settlement_

Lam Garden Sdn Bhd @ Sg.Buloh Leprosy Settlement

*All Kind of flowers

* The hanging plants

*In the pots

*The big Monkey cup

*Orchids

*Ranges of Cactus

*BonZai

Then you may ask, ‘Is Panda’s parents are one of them too?’ ~ They Are Not.

They were from George Town, Penang since 25 years ago, they introduced by a relative who was actually the patient here to work for the pottery factory. And After years, they managed to set up their own nursery business and operating there since more than15 years ago. Beside the Nursery Retail, Panda’s brother manages to have his landscaping projects coming in too.

If you know about the New Sg. Buloh Hospital, drive all the way in from the main road in front of the Hospital, you will see the Old Leprosy Hospital in your left hand side. Then go further more… You will start seeing all the nurseries … there are a lot more in all the way in… about 5 min drive from New Sg. Buloh Hospital, you will see Lam Garden Sdn Bhd.

Simmer Fried Pork

2007-12-27T02:55:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. Fried Pork (270g)
2. Mien Gen (Cut into half)
3. 25g Soft Black Wood Ear
4. 1 Tomato (sliced)
5. 1 stalk Chinese Celery (cut 1 inch)
6. 1 Red Chili (sliced)
7. 3 Cloves Garlic (Chopped)

Seasoning:
1 tbsp Oyster sauce
1 tsp Sour Plum Sauce
½ tsp Corn flour
1/3 tsp pepper
*mix well above seasoning with 1 cup of water.

Methods:
1. Heat 2 tbsp oil in frying pan and fry chopped garlic until fragrant.
2. Add in sliced tomato and soft wood ear.
* stir fry over medium heat until tomatoes turned soft.
3. Add Seasoning, Mien Gen and Fried Pork until tender.
4. Add in Chinese Celery and Sliced Red Chili - stir fry for 5 min.

Simple and Done!

Winter Melon Soup

2007-12-27T01:26:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. Spare Ribs (4 pcs)
2. Carrot (cubed)
3. 50g Wolfberries ~ Ji Zi
4. 6 Red dates ~ Hung Zau
5. 4 Chinese Mushrooms
6. 1 Dried Squid

7. 1 small Winter Melon (cubed)

Methods:
1. Clean Spare Ribs, cut into cubes. Blanch in boiling water, rinse to remove scum.
2. Rinse Wolfberries, Red dates, Chinese Mushrooms, and squid.
3. Cut Carrot and Winter Melon into cubes.
4. Simmer all ingredients with 2ltr water with electrical slow cooker.
5. Add sufficient salt.
*With low heat- for over night at least 6 hours.
*With High heat – for 4 hrs.

~ DISH UP and SERVE!!!

Sambal "So Choi"

2007-12-26T01:05:00.000-08:00

Being a Chinese Malaysian, we are staying in the Different Culture’s society…
We are here living with Cultures Mixing since hundred years ago.

Malaysia’s culture is marked by the Ancient Malay Culture, the Chinese and the Indians. Myself, I born in Penang, this is a city which is full of the impression of Chinese Cultures. I heard from my parents and grandparents that our grad grand parents came from China to exploit the tin and rubber hundred years ago.

But my family moved and migrated to the Borneo Island which is belongs to another part of Malaysia ~ we call the East Malaysia. And I grew up there in Land Below The Wind call Sabah…
Sabah the beautiful Borneo Island, there are many which live in the forests and coastal areas of Borneo. There are few ethic groups in Sabah ~ Kadazan, Dusun and Murut. They blended together with us and created uniquely diverse heritage for our country.

So here, learn from the Malay Culture ~ SAMBAL

* Fried So Choi In Sambal

Ingredients:
1. 500gm So Choi
2. 25g dried shrimps
3.4 shallots (chopped)
4. 4 cloves garlic (chopped)
5. 3 red Chilies (2 chopped, 1 sliced)
6. 2 bird eye chilies

Methods:
1. Soak dried shrimps until soft, rinse and drain (Chop Shrimps into small pcs)
2. Grind Chilies and Dried Shrimps into paste.3. Add Seasoning: Salt, Brown Sugar and mix well.
4. Heat 3 tbsp oil and sauté chopped shallots and garlic until fragrant.
5. Add So Choi and stir fry over high heat until cooked.
6. Add fried Dried Shrimps.
7. Dish up…. Garnish with Sliced Chilies … SERVE!

Lamp Chop ~ X'mas Eve Dinner

2007-12-25T08:01:00.000-08:00

We normally got out for Good Dinner for the pass few Christmas Eve we had.
Christmas Eve 2007 ~ We decided not going out for this Christmas Eve’s Dinner!
We Decided to have our 2007 Christmas Eve Dinner at home with BigFish Cook Book ~ yahoooo!!!

Went to Tesco and start preparing... Here it is ~

Ingredients:
1. Marinated Black Pepper Lamp Chop ~ from Tesco
2. Black Pepper mix powder (Maggie)
3. 1 Tomato (slices)
4. 1 carrot (cubed)
5. 3 Sweet Peas
6. 1 Potato (cubed)
7. 1 Red Onion (sliced)
8. 1 stalk Celery (take the leafs)
9. 3 BBQ Cheese big Sausages

Methods:
1. Boil a pot of water. Add 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp butter. Blanch ingredients (3,4,5) until soft.
2. Drain and arrange on a plate.
3. Heat sufficient oil and fry Cheese Sausages until it turn brownish.
4. Pour 1 tbsp oil and fry the Marinated Black Pepper Lamp Chop until 80% cooked with medium heat. Arrange on a plate.
5. Mix the Black Pepper Powder with water (400ml), add 1 tsp Sour Plum Sauce – mix well.
6. Heat up wok with sufficient oil with medium heat. Pour in and sauté until fragrant.
* Pour the sauce over the Lamp Chop and Red Onion ~ Garnish with Sliced Red Chili ~ DONE!

We ready a bottle of Red Wine and our little small Christmas Tree on the dinning table.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

2007-12-23T20:09:00.000-08:00

To all my readers and bloggy here...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

1st TAG in My Blog

2007-12-23T09:47:00.000-08:00

Sue Sue tagged me yesterday on this 20 question~

Instructions:
Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that they've been tagged.

1. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be

* A new Dream House with a big nice kitchen and a nice fitting room.

2. You like rainy or sunny day? Why

* Rainy ~cos I afraid of Hot, wear sleeveless all the while.

3. My Question:
If you have a chance to choose, which age you want have your first kid?

* 33 yrs old.

4. What color do you like the most?

* Black and Purple.

5. If you have the chance, what would you probably say to your beloved one?

* Have a romantic and relax holiday.

6. Where is the place that you want to go the most

* HOME ~ Sabah.

7. Which part of you that you hate the most?

* Finger nails ~ too soft.

8. When you encounter a sad moment, what would you do?

* Be alone.

9. What is it that you are afraid to lose the most?

* My family and friends.

10. If you win $1 million, what would you do?

* Expand my business and retire in another 10yrs time.

11. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her? Or would you keep it to yourself and observe from afar?

* Gossh... sure confess :)

12. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
* Nice, kind and Friendly

13. What are the requirements that you wish for your other half?

* To know what I want the most and love me a lot

14. Till now, what is the moment that you regret the most?

* never regret anything

15. Which type of person that you hate the most?

* People who don’t keep their promise

16. What is your ambition?

* Own little business and have time to take HOME too

17.Christmas is coming, who do you like to celebrate with?

* My Darling and brother who live with me now

18. What do you think it’s the most important thing in your life?

* Health and Wealth and Pretty always

19. At which age do you wish to retire?

* 10 yrs later (love to be 40yrs old)

20. What do you hate most?

* When some one said BYE for good.

My Tag to the next 8 persons:
> Nicholas Wong
> Rose' World
> Big Boys Oven
> Bubu long island
> Beachlover's Kitchen
> Little Corner of Mine
> Simple Life
> ^^Living in Food Heaven^^

SSF ~ The Art of Living

2007-12-23T04:16:00.000-08:00

Went to SSF (Home Deco Mart) lately, for the membership and also the voucher redemption. Perhaps Panda is Interior Design Consultant and doing a lot of projects for Show House. With the purchase amount he did for his latest project, so he entitled to get Voucher for membership redemption.

SSF is a place where you can find a lot of quality households and decorative things. If you are lazy to have real gardening at home, you can have their fake-plants. All the “plastic plants” there are well placed in nice glass or pot.

There is something I really wanted to own them, but still is not the time yet for me to have it now… those are Nice and Quality Candle Stand with all kind of different designs. Besides, they sell a lot of Drawings and Lightings too. Huh… how I wish my house is big enough for all the stuffs I wanted to have…. ~ pheeeeuuu…

Guess every ‘Cooking Lovers’ will always wanted to have nice beautiful kitchen accessories… One of my lovely things to collect is ~ I hope my future kitchen is really big enough for me to have my different Dinning Set and Kitchen Accessories…

With the Redemption this time… I have my first set of Dinning Set come with a Square Design Shape! Ouuuhhh… lovely ~

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~ my lovely vase-deco

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Hand Bagss... Looks who CRAZY!

2007-12-21T22:35:00.000-08:00

I have been so busy for the pass few days… No time to Blog and even didn’t have time to cook… Oooorrrggghhh!!!

Oh anyway, I’m back here today… I went for my hand bags and accessories shopping again. Ermmm… I am thinking to get something for my mom and relatives as Chinese New Year present.

Oooh… I finally find out there’s too many of my Girls’ friends like hand bag like CRAZY!

To satisfy Girl’s Urge… I have decided to buy more and more... so can share with people around me… hahahhaa~

Here are the Results from shopping!

*A friend asked me why I buy so many and how am I going to use that…
I bet all ladies know how to use with so many different kind of Hand Bags right?!
Is just a matter on how you want yourself to look like everyday…
U want yourself to look Plan all the time? Or Fashionable and Fresh all the time?

Buying from Supplier has to in the MINIMUM QUATITY actually. That is the reason why I buy so many…
The most important thing is… PRICE! If you see people selling Hand Bags outside with the price of RM50 – RM80, then what I can get here is around RM25 – RM35. For those normal designs or simple one, I can even get it with below RM25… hahahhaaa…
THE PRICE IS EVEN LOWER THAN “MALAYSIA YEAR END CARNIVAL SALES”.

The price really make me CRAZY !!!

Now I really can understand my entire Girls’ friends are SAME as me…
I chat with my cousin sister online, and send her the pictures I have with all the hand bags I am having with the EVEN LOW PRICE ~ she send me all the codes and ask me to buy for her and courier it up to Penang!!! Can u believe that??!!!

Oh Well… I’m so willing to do so … it is like so Enjoyable. And she even ask her friend to choose!!!

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Demand and Supply

To Sue Sue and all bloggers who likes hand bags~

The friend will give me the latest update and I will normally choose from there. Cos they actually don’t sell in retail. Then will be picking up from him personally. My deal with them is quite flexible, but still there is a Minimum Quantity that I need to follow. People buying from them following by colors, if you have chosen a certain design… then you have to take all the colors they have.
*The offer they gave me is, they allow me to choose any 6 designs. And I’m still getting the prices which they sell in bulks. So my minimum order is 6pcs each time.

There is something I really like, they seldom do repeat order unless your quantity is huge. They change their stocks whenever the current stocks finished. This is why I stick to them, cos I won’t be seeing same old stocks when I wanna to have new hand bags.

They are going to have another batch of new stocks for CNY soon by January. Pls let me know if you are interested. I will post all the pictures here!

Steam Fish with Shao Hsing Wine

2007-12-19T09:56:00.000-08:00

Steam The Fishes or Fried The Fishes… huh… ??!

I have finally decided to steam the fishes. Again I tried with the love Shau Shing Wine again. And I have bought this Fish Sauce few weeks ago, but still keeping it in the kitchen. Errrmmmhhh… This time I gonna use it!

~Shao Hsing Wine and Fish Sauce

Ingredients:
1. Fishes (2)
2. Ginger (sliced)
3. 1 cut Bird Eye Chili (Chili Padi)
4. 1 shallot (sliced)
5. 1 mushroom (sliced)

Method:
*1. To make the fishes tasty – rub on 1/2 tsp Sesame oil and 1 tsp Oyster sauce.
* 2. To make the nice stocks – 1 tbsp of Shao Hsing Wine mixed with 1/2 cup water.
Then ~ Pour over (*1 and *2) fish and let it marinate for at list 15min.
Before steam ~ add 1 tbsp of Fish Sauce.
*3. Fry the Sliced Ginger until fragrant. Mixed with ½ teaspoon of Oyster Sauce.

Steam the Fishes for 20min… garnish with Red Sliced Chili and SERVE!
(If you like to serve it with the Ginger… pour on top)

Hand Bags Shopping ~ pay less for MORE ITMES!

2007-12-19T00:12:00.000-08:00

Hand bags… hand bags…

I believe almost all Girls and Ladies will never have limits on HAND BAGS spending.
Once can have all kind of new hand bags to suite our fashion style… that’s they best part in our life!

The question is… I’m not the type of person who only likes branded, then most of the time I will like to have Non Branded but ‘up to the trend’ fashion. My urge on hand bags is the most horrible part to my Panda, my hand bags collection is now hanging on the wall, occupied 1/3 of our Study Room. Different colors, different designs, different pattern and style… I just love them so much although those are not branded, but I am so satisfy when every time I wanted to match my dressing.

There are some ladies that do not have any limits on the Accessories Spending. Although I’m always crazy on having new hand bags, but I do concern the price when I shop for it.
I want them TRENDY and CHEAP… most important is, NOT HARM to the public eyes… haha!

My Quote is: Why should I spend few thousand for a Branded if I can have tons of different design and trendy but Non Branded with spending less?!

Come to choose the cheap and nice hand bags! As usual… ladies always look for Sales Season. Now I have another better choice where I can have my Trendy hand bags with spending even lesser than the Sales Season.

I have a chance to meet with Hand Bag Supplier who introduced by a friend, and the prices they given to me is just so much NICER compare to even the Sales Season!!!
But the only thing is… I have to buy at least ½ dozen or 1 dozen each time lar…

Here are the Hand Bags I got for this week shopping ~

WHY PAY MORE?

beside these trendy ... make a visit to http://www.kalindicraft.com
I like their designs too!

Steam Chicken with Shao Hsing Wine

2007-12-17T08:50:00.000-08:00

~the before

Ingredients:
1. Whole piece of Chicken Tight (chop into small pcs)
2. Ginger (Cut into slices)
3. 50g Wolfberries ~ Ji Zi
4. 5 Red dates ~ Hung Zau
5. 1 Chinese Mushroom
6. 1 stalk Chinese Celery
7. 1 cut Bird Eye Chili ***

*Marinate the Chicken pcs with 1 tbsp of Shou Hsing Wine, 1 tbsp of Oyster sauce, 1 tsp of sesame oil, ½ tsp of corn flour. (at least 20min)

Method:
Steam at least 20 min.

Sprinkle chopped Chinese Celery on top and SERVE!!!

It is so successful!

~the after

This is the first tried of Steam Chicken I did after I went to a Food Court. Panda and I had the “Sufficient Stock LALA” for supper. Found out they cook the LALA with Shao Hsing Wine and wolfberries, it really taste good! Errrrm… I decided to modified from there and create it in my own cooking way for my Chicken tonight.

Cheapest Cook Book

2007-12-17T07:08:00.000-08:00

~the cheapest cook book in town

I went to Porpular Book Store yesterday. Purposely… I want to have a look whether they have any new cook book. My purpose was not to buy the book ~ with the short visit time, I was just curious whether there’s any new creative way that I can learn a bit here and there.

My God! I cannot believe my eyes… just right at the middle of the entrance, I found this!
~ Chinese New Year Recipes, with nice designed cover. Sell only RM6.88!!!
Orrrggghhh… flip the book and had a deep look, those are the recipes and dishes that normally I can see from my mom’s cooking for the Chinese New Year Eve’s Dinner. What a funny book eh ~

Other than the Recipes, they written the Traditional of Chinese New Year like:~ Telling people about Red Packets, Lion Dance, Yu Sheng, Mandarin Oranges, Nian Gao and etc…

Without thoughts, I have bought it…

Lam Garden @ Sg. Buloh

2007-12-17T05:28:00.000-08:00

OUTING for every Sunday

We make a short visit again to Sg. Buloh nursery on Sunday as usual. Over so many years, if no other places to go… Sg. Buloh Nursery and have dinner at Sg. Buloh is one of the MUST DO activities we usually have for EVERY SUNDAY. Cos Panda's parents live there, and we have to go back there to make a short visit.

Here the Nursery ~ Lam Garden Sdn. Bhd. (45 min from K.L City)

For ppl who likes planting or gardening at home, please do make here a visit. The prices here are all reasonable and Panda’s family is operating the business since about 15 years ago.

The condition of air here is fresher than the city life. If u come here before the Chinese New Year… You will see all the Nurseries are selling the Chinese Lime tree (Kat Zai). If you are ready to have 1 or 2 pots to display Chinese Lime Tree at home, then come to visit Panda’s parents Nursery for Chinese New Year shopping.
** Let me know if you are going (my blog visitors), I will definitely prepare them to give you all a Good Price!

Feeling like ~ at Cameron Highland ~ (but without the cold weather)

The Golden Compass

2007-12-16T13:20:00.001-08:00

After our Short Visit to Sg. Buloh … Panda decided to go for Movie.

This is the movie which we seen the Preview when we had movie ‘last time’… (If I remember ~ it was last month or the month before last month …)

I remember, both me and Panda had very good ‘VOTE’ on it.
But after this evening ~ I guess we had a bit disappointed…
The only appreciation is … the animation …

No matter how, no harm to pay for a WATCH.

image from ~ Theatrical release poster (From Wikipedia)

Fish Head Noodles

2007-12-16T12:44:00.000-08:00

Wake up late on the Sunday’s afternoon…

Went for the BEST fish head noodles in Cheras, Taman Len Seng…
Finally I figured out they added the Gourmet Cooking Shao Hsing – Hua Tiao Chiew！ No wonder the Fish Head Noodles taste so nice!

More than a Feeling

2007-12-15T11:35:00.001-08:00

about BLOG

2007-12-15T11:03:00.000-08:00

I have my whole day FREE today accept morning.

So, I’m here sitting to find out more about BLOG!

I know a lot of people have their own blogs, but I thought blogging is just like a simple thing which writing your own diary and let other people to share with. But after all, I found out that blogging is “NOT ONLY THAT”… even far more than what I expected!

I have been busying with my Job as a Marketer for the pass few years. Going outstation and been flying around a lot. There’s so many things I can share here, and I had just missed the chance cos I didn’t actually know more about the Function Of Blog.
~ What a waste…

Started from Oct 2007, I started to rearrange my schedule and switching back to my own little business… I also started to learn on Creating my own Blog. That was the very first step for me and I started with my Nick Name as “BigFish” ~ this nick name been with me for more than 15 years since my secondary school time. Over here, I want to share with people here about My Things and Feeling that made from the heart.

Very beginning... I was so glad about creating my own blog. But on the other hand, it was so hard for me to start with. I had even difficulties to start with the Add and Arrange Page Elements … My God! I started to notice that I am far behind with what is up to date online now!
Anyway… not giving up… I started with my own Cook Book. I like to cook and create new recipes for my own dish. Everything got started with taking pictures while I am doing my ingredients preparing and cooking. I practice myself to take down all the photos for the food I have done for every meal.

I was so exciting… I finally can manage my own personal time to take out the ‘WOK’ which I had kept inside the cupboard for more than 3 years due to my busy working schedule. I decided everything to be rearranged and start again… My writing, my cooking, my housework, my handicraft hobby, my pets…

Then so coincident, few weeks ago…I met one of my close best friends online, and she told me that she is an active blogger since 3 years ago, and she has a lot of fans there…she even earns from posting her Blogs… Gosh! Unbelievable… I can never believe Blogging is another pipe-line to earn extra income too. Pheeeuu… such a new stuff for me!

She told me about the Traffics, The Blog Rank and etc… everything seems so hard for me to understand. After short thinking, I have decided to start with what I can do now and since I want to make my ‘BigFish~Cook Book’, then I will learn step by step and hopefully from time to time, I can have my group of bloggy too. I believe if my contents are informative and friendly enough, I will slowly get into PPP…

image from ~ some one

Pills

2007-12-14T23:47:00.000-08:00

Black Bear's dad is now home…

He is consulting by a Mental Specialist now in Sg. Buloh New Hospital and we never believe that our new Government Hospital is now having so many Specialist Departments.

Pray to God ~ Black Bear’s dad can get well soon.

He starts to communicate better with his sons and daughter in a better way now!

Black Bear's dad told us that he is not feeling so dizzy now after taking the medicines given by the Sg. Buloh Government’s Specialist. Cos for the pass at least 8 years, he’s been consulting the Private Mental Specialist in Plaza Angkasa Jaya near the KLCC. From what he told us… he is sure... after taking all the pills as below, he feels sleepy and forgetful all the time.

Hopefully he listens to his sons and don’t go back to the Private Specialist in Plaza Angkasa Jaya again.

These are the Pills he was having for the pass many years… pheeeuuu!
1. Imipramine (25mg)
2. Diazepam (2mg)
3. Nootropil (800mg)
4. Serlift (100mg)
5. Stilnox (10mg)
6. Glucovange (500mg/2.5mg)

By the way, I’m not a pharmacy and I don’t really know what are these pills resulted on a Depression Patient. But according to the consultant we meet in Sg. Buloh Hospital, his dad is not too serious for taking up so many kinds of pills.

God Bless ~

Spicy Prawn

2007-12-12T09:03:00.000-08:00

Steam Chicken with Chinese Celery

2007-12-12T08:46:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. Chop Chicken Tight (600g)
2. 4 cloves of garlic (Chopped)
3. 2 shallots (Chopped)
4. 3 slices ginger (Chopped)
5. 2 stalk Chinese Celery (Chopped)

* Heat up 2 tbsps of oil in a wok and fried all the Ingredients (2, 3, 4,5) until fragrant.
Dish up and put aside.

Methods:
Steam Chicken – 20 min
Pour over all the Fried Ingredients and Serve!

Sambal Lady Fingers

2007-12-12T08:33:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. Lady Fingers (300g - slices)
2. 6 cloves of garlic (Fine cut)
3. 3 shallots (Fine cut)
4. 1 Red Chili (Slices)
5. 30g of Shrimp (Fine cut)

* Sambal paste – Red Chilies blended with garlics and shallots (all together 200g)
~ Add a little bit of salt and mix well.

Methods:
1. Rinse and drain the Ladies Fingers.
2. Heat 3 tbsps of oil in a wok and sauté sambal mixture until fragrant.
3. Add in Lady Fingers, stir-fry until cooked.

After everything done, garnish with sliced chili and serve!

Steam Pork with Salted Fish

2007-12-05T11:41:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. Minced Pork (200g)
2. 4 cloves of garlic (Fine cut)
3. 2 shallots (Fine cut)
4. 2 Green small Chilies (Fine cut)
5. 50g of Salted Fish
6. 20g of Ginger (slices)

* Marinate - Stir well the Minced Pork with all the Ingredients (1, 2, 3, 4,5).
(Add ½ cup of water, ½ tsp of corn flour and 1 tsp of oyster source)

Methods:
Steam – 20 min

After everything done, garnish with sliced gingers and serve!

BeanCurd, Fried Pork with Salted Sour Vegetables

2007-12-05T11:29:00.001-08:00

Ingredients:
1. 1 BeanCurd (cubed)
2. 200g Pork, sliced
3. 4 cloves garlic (fine cut)
4. 300g Salted Sour Marinated Vegetables

* Marinate Pork with ½ tbsp Oyster Source, 2 cloves of fine cut garlic and 1/3 tsp of pepper.

Methods:
1. Fry the Cubed BeanCurd with 3 tbsps of cooking oil until it changed yellowish.
(Drain BeanCurd)
2. Heat sufficient oil and fry the fine cut garlic until it change yellowish.
3. Fry the Marinated Pork together with the Salted Sour Vege for at least 10 minutes.
4. Add in the BeanCurd with the Marinate Pork for 5 more minutes.

Beef Balls and Chinese Spinach

2007-12-04T06:11:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. 150g minced beef
2. 6 prawns (remove heads and shells) – chop finely
3. 60g Chinese Spinach (Poh-Choy)
4. 1 stalk Chinese Celery
5. 5 slices ginger
6. 1 tsp sesame oil

Seasoning:
1. ½ egg white, 1 tsp of cornflour, a little of salt, pepper and sesame oil.
2. Fine cut 1 tsp of mint shallots, garlic and 3 small green chilies.
3. Salt and pepper (sufficient stock)

Methods:

1. Mix the Minced Beef and Prawns with all the seasoning (1) and (2).

2. Use hand to squeeze out the meat balls.

3. Rinse and cut into sections.

4. Ready 1.5 liter water to boil. Boil together with the 5 slices of ginger.

5. Add in meat balls until cooked.

6. Add in Seasoning (3) and stir well.
7. Dish up, drizzle with well fried garlic oil and serve!

Amaranth and small dried sardines

2007-11-28T02:31:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1．Ba Yam vegetable- 0.5kg
2．Small dried sardines - Little
3．Garlic – cut into small tinny

Methods:
1. 1 soupspoon cooking oil pours into the hot frying pan, explodes the fine grain garlic
2. Fry the Vege (BaYam) – until it changed to soft.

3. Serve on plate and places Dried small sardines on top

My Puppy – Fatty

2007-11-26T11:50:00.000-08:00

Really painful insight… That was a Tuesday, Eason (BiBi ~ New daddy's recommender) called me ~ He asks me whether is still with us। I knew this day will come soon! I felt extremely hateful... Is such so quick?! We have not ready with any preparation actually, that was because BiBi’s leaving us not even 2 weeks, my “sad mood” also has not returned to normal yet… it is just to fast that now I have to face with Ah Fat’s leaving… Too fast until I cannot accept and don’t know how to handle actually…

Such a sudden moment, I had not thought… the next minutes, I made a rang to Chin and told him about Eason is coming over… Who knew he has not responded at all?! Errrggghhh…
I was so sad, it was like so reluctantly I have to accept that Ah Fat is going to leave us soon…

Same situation like BiBi that day ~ I went home, brought Ah Fat to restroom… The sad scene started to appear in my mind again… Inside heart ~ I felt like carrying a heavy stone!!!

Ah Fat is actually an overweight puppy, his whole body covered by full dull black shinny hair… His eyes is actually big and round, because of he is just too dark, therefore some times we can’t really see his eyes... A male dog like him, he voice is really loud and strong when he barks! He is totally a Strongly Built and Vigorously puppies comparing to others…

We used to lye on the sofa and he was too playful and over excited… he jumped up on top on our belly and the post we normally have is ‘can’t even make a sound’ and ‘only can feel that our eye balls’ is dropping when this case happened!

Every time when I wanna to shower him, I will walk “hand in hand” with him and his actions will
normally acts like a little human baby to enter gradually with me into the restroom... He will jump up on top and stand on the covered toilet bowl. He will wait there quietly for me to get ready the warm water. He will stand obediently where enjoys me rubbing his back. He likes me to wash his hair and treating him like a human.

Approximately, we suppose to meet Eason on Thursday evening, Eason will come with his friend and bring away Ah Fat from us...

That Tuesday evening, Ah Fat was playing at the living room as usual, my little lonely disposition Catty (another female puppy with Cream colour) unexpectedly was giving extraordinarily attention to play with Ah Fat!
* We been keeping them since so long and we never seen Catty get along well with Ah Fat?!

Same day… when Chin came back, I was so happy to tell him about Catty and Ah Fat! Until that was time to sleep, I kept asking him with the same question ‘should we really give away Ah Fat to others?’ Because I discovered, in the past several years, we didn’t actually have time to take care them nicely. None of us have the extra time to pay attention to look after them. Therefore, that’s the only reason why they are now having rebel's behavior. I can see thoroughly Chin didn’t want to make such a bad decision too. But he has not actually detained any opinion for me.
~ Errrggghhh!!! I didn’t know how to express… I was sad and it was so hard for me to fall asleep on that particular night!~

Wednesday… Gosh! Here the critical moment come! Tomorrow will be “The Date”!
As usual Ah Fat was playing in the living room again… I was sitting on the sofa; Ah Fat suddenly lying on my legs and showed his adorable faces to me…
Oh My God ~ I can feel my heart was ‘MELTING’… And this lovely scene will not be able to appear again after Thursday evening!!!

The feeling inside me heart was like drinking the Lime Juice!
Damn it… suddenly I felt like I hate Thursday’s evening?! ~

Ha! Unbelievable… Who knows there’s sentences came out from Chin’s mouth… with ‘Dull and Heavy Voice’!
He said ~ “I think you called Eason and tell him don’t came tomorrow! Our Ah Fat is actually quite obedient!”
~ Oh??? My mind cannot respond at all in a sudden!
But inside my heart… I was like dancing on the huge big stage… Yeeaaah! Yeaaaahh! Yeaaaah!!!

I was so impatient, the second days the first minute after awake from my best sweet dream…I gave Eason a call and CANCELED our appointment with him!!!

So, now our Big Ah Fat is still with us …
~ And I am hoping that we will not change our mind and don’t give up Ah Fat anymore!!!

Lovely Steam Pork

2007-11-16T13:26:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. Minced Pork (200g)
2. 4 cloves of garlic (Fine cut)
3. 2 shallots (Fine cut)
4. 2 Green small Chilies (Fine cut)

* Marinate - Stir well the Minced Pork with all the Ingredients (1, 2, 3, 4).
(Add ½ cup of water, ½ tsp of corn flour and 1 tsp of oyster source)

Methods:
Steam – 20 min

Fried Mao Gua with Dried Squid

2007-11-13T10:23:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. 1 Mao Gua (sectioned)
2. 4 cloves Garlic (grated)
3. Some sliced dried squid
4．1/3 Carrot (sectioned)

Methods：
1．Heat up 1 tbsp cooking oil, fry grated garlic until fragrant.
2．Add in sliced squid and fry with medium for 5 min.
3．Add in Mao Gua and carrot, add in some salt, then fry for another 5 min.

Sour and Spicy Soup

2007-11-13T10:21:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. 2 Stalks Spring Onion (sliced)
2. 1/3 Carrot (sliced)
3. 1 Chili (sliced)
4. 1 Big Red Onion (sliced)6. 20g Black Fungus (sliced)
5. 2 Mushroom (sliced)

Seasoning:
* Corn Flour, white pepper and brown sugar.
* Spices: Caramel, Sesame Oil, Yeast Extra, Tomato juice

Methods:1. Cook 1000ml water, mix with about seasonings.
2. Add in all Ingredients and cook for 10min.
3. After cooked, add in 1 egg and stir well.
4. Add sufficient salt and cook for 5 min.

Black Pepper Beef

2007-11-13T10:19:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. 2 Stalks Spring Onion (sectioned)
2. 4 Cloves Garlic (grated)
3. some Old Ginger (sliced)
4. 1 red chili (sliced)
5. 2 bird eye chilies (grated)
6. 1 tbsp black soya sauce

7. 1 tbsp black pepper (crushed)

Method:
* Mix 1/2 rice bowl water with Black Soya paste, 1/2 tsp corn flour, old ginger stalk, 1 tbsp black pepper powder, 1/2 tsp brown sugar. *Stir well.
* Marinated Beef - CornFlour, old ginger stalk, some black pepper powder, some brown sugar, miced garlic and minced garlic.

Method:

1．Heat up 2 tbsps cooking oil, fry minced garlic and minced old ginger until fragrant.
2．Add bird eye chilies, black soya paste and black pepper powder. Stir fry.
3．Add beef and fry until 70% cooked.
4．Pour in Seasoning, stir fry with medium heat for 1 minute.
5．Garnish with Sliced Red Chili and Sliced Spring Onion before serve.

Serve with Porridge

2007-11-13T09:55:00.001-08:00

Fried Mini Sardine

2007-11-13T09:55:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. Dried Mini Sardine
2. 6 Cloves garlic (Fine Cut)

Methods:
1. Clean the Mini Sardines and drain.
2. Fry the Fine Cut Garlic until it changed yellowish. (Medium Heat)
3. Add in Mini Sardines, fry until fragrant.
4. Stop the fire. Garnish with 1 tsp of brown sugar and serve.

Mushroom Potato

2007-11-07T08:31:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1. 1 Potato (Slices)
2. 4 Cloves garlic (Fine Cut)
3. 6 Mutton Mushroom (Slices)

Methods:
1. Fry the Slices Potato with 3 tbsps of cooking oil until it changed yellowish.
(Drain- Slices Potato)
2. Fry the Fine Cut Garlic until it changed yellowish.
3. Add in Slices Mushroom, fry for 5 min.
4. Mix 1 tbsp of Oyster Source, Corn flour and fry together with Slices Potato.
5. Fry for another 5 min. Dish up and serve!

Sambal Lily Buds

2007-11-07T07:33:00.000-08:00

Outing to ~ Cameron Highland

2007-11-01T04:40:00.000-07:00

* Peppermint garden (entrance)

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Our group of people,(8 of us) … driving up to Cameron Highland enormously!

* The weather is cloudy...Raining (Extremely cold!)

All the way all is the curving road…Just in a short while of driving…The road all the way up entered governs the narrow condition!

The curving place is especially dangerous, in addition rains ~ slippery… We arrived there about 7pm!

Woow!!! Reached the first small town.。。The rain water has not been stop and even heavier…We were forced to get down from the car for shopping, with“the underwear umbrella”which is given by Christina when she was back in Malaysia!

Friends from another vehicle were already getting up the “BBQ-fire”.
Preparation start and doing BBQ ~Baking.

There weather is Spring all over the year, the evening climate is very possible get down to 10 degree! For a country like Malaysia,10 degree is extremely cold!)

Urrh! By the time we arrived Sister Tan’s house is already almost 8pm!

The rain didn’t stop , the night was dark misty… Can even felt the cold was right at the corner!

The happy thing is, in front of her house ~ There is a space for us to BBQ, we won’t drip wet by the rain.

Although outside didn’t have any street light, but we may see clearly under our foot ~ was a piece of green and glossy peppermint garden.

People who stay there… due to the fresh air… I believe Human's mood also can be better!

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~ We need double layers of blanket that night... "how to go for White X'mas??"
"Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
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* Flower Farm ~ All the plants there are bigger and nicer!

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* BOH’ Tea Farm~ The most famous Tea Farm in Malaysia
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* Chrysanthemum farm
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* Vegetable Farm

Mushroom Tomato with Pork

2007-10-31T10:46:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
1． Mushroom- 6 pcs (Cuts half)
2． Tomato- 1 (Slivers8Piece)
4． Pork- Slice (salt: Oyster oil, bureau powder, ground pepper)
5． Garlic- 3 Granulose, (slices)

Method:
1. Fry the Garlic with 2 soupspoon of cooking oil, (until turned golden yellow), then join the

tomato together (Frying for 5 min)
2．Deep fried the salt meat, approximately 5 Min.
3．Finally add the slices’ mushroom, again fry for another 5 min.

Japanese Cucumber with shrimps

2007-10-31T10:25:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
1． Japanese cucumber - 3 Strip
2． Shrimp- Little
3． Garlic – Fine grain

Method:
1. 1 soupspoon of cooking oil pours into the hot frying pan, fry the fine grain garlic

(until yellowish)
2. Join those Shrimps fries them together.
3. Fry the Japanese Cucumber and the Shrimps together. (Joins 1/3 Teaspoon salt).

狗狗走了

2007-10-26T13:48:00.000-07:00

BiBi – 我的灰色狗狗， Fatty – 我的黑色狗狗。
昨晚，要领养狗狗的新爸爸终于杀到来了。
我出门那几天，电话已拼命响个不停，要跟我约时间上来家里拜访，可是都没有办法预约。
这一次，终于也没办法逃过了。。。
Eason （介绍人）- 告诉我，他朋友想要公的- Fatty。
我的心情，一致都很不好受。

下午，我就赶紧冲着回家，立愿一定要把他们整理干净，让人看了赏心悦目。
在帮他们洗澡时，我跟BiBi 说：“你是母的暂时没有人说要你，可是你要跟阿Fat 说再见了咯！阿Fat 的新爸爸要来咯！阿Fat 走了不要伤心哦！

我也拼命跟阿Fat 说，“新爸爸要来带你走咯，一定要听话让人喜欢哦！”
我跟它在厕所里呆很久，就是一致跟它道别，发现它真的听话，懂事。我摸着它的头，叫它到新家后别顽皮，别老是爱吠。真的不舍得！
哇！它望着我的眼神好像会说话一样。。。湿着身体，动也不动。

9点钟。。。来了，来了。。。电话到了！
怎么知道来了个好像见过的人，他就是阿Fat 的新爸爸了！他带了黄色的笼子。。。就是这个东西，要用来装狗狗的！

它们都站在椅子上，阿Fat 就是不停地追着 Catty （我另一只米白色狗狗）。。。不停地追。阿Fat 的过动形象或许让新爸爸没有好评。。。怎么知道阿Fat 的新爸爸最后要的竟然不是阿Fat, 而是 BiBi 哦！！！
顿时，我心里一下子感觉很酸，因为我并没有预料到被抱走的竟然是BiBi，而且我没有跟它沟通好呢！完了。。。我心里极度内疚，极度伤感 ~ 。。。~

谈了整个小时，终于来到这一刻，Chin要把BiBi 放进笼里了。可是怎么推，她也不进去。。。
看起来它真的没想到自己要被带走，其实我也没想到要被带走的是它！
我真的来不及整理心情，就在那时刻，“新爸爸”问我们，：你们舍得把它送走吧？。。。我的天阿，要我怎么答呢？- - 我的答案竟然简单得离谱，：“就不舍得阿！可是没办法，只有忍痛割爱！”
BiBi 在笼子里面很慌张，有点挣扎。。。

“新爸爸”从口袋里拿了个红包给我们。。。我的反应真的大，立刻说：“不要，我们不是要卖女儿，是希望它可以有个适合的地方，活得更好！” - - 新爸爸最后还是把红包给了我们，他说，风俗本来应该买糖送过来。。。听了后，我也希望BiBi 以后活得健康快乐就收下了。

阿Fat 应该还是想不通，为什么BiBi 会被放进笼子里被人带着走。。。当“新爸爸”走出门口的那一刻，它追了出去。。。是我和Chin 把它给拉回来。哼！我那时刻真的难受极了！坐在椅子上，眼泪不知觉地流了出来。。。
而跟BiBi一起生活了2年多的阿Fat, 当天晚上也哭叫了整晚。。。
Chin跟我说：“我们要祝福BiBi在新家一定会活得更好！”

Dried BeanCurd with Pork

2007-10-26T13:34:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
1. 1 BeanCurd (cubed)
2. 500g Pork, sliced
3. 4 cloves garlic (fine cut)

* Marinate Pork with ½ tbsp Oyster Source, 2 cloves of fine cut garlic and 1/3 tsp of pepper.

Methods:
1. Fry the Cubed BeanCurd with 3 tbsps of cooking oil until it changed yellowish.
(Drain BeanCurd)
2. Heat sufficient oil and fry the fine cut garlic until it change yellowish.
3. Fry the Marinate Pork for at least 5 minutes.
4. Fry the BeanCurd with the Marinate Pork for 5 minutes.

Fried Lily buds and pork

2007-10-26T13:15:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
1. Vege: Kam Cham
2. Button Mushroom (slices)
3. Meat: Pork (slices + sweet con powder + oyster source)
Others: Garlic (small tinny pieces)

Method:
1. Put a soup spoon of oil and heat up the frying pan.
2. Add all the tinny pieces of garlic and cook it until turned yellowish gold
3. Add in slices pork and fried together with garlic until the pork meat cooked.
4. Add in Kam Cham Vege and Button Mushroom cook together.
5. Add in 4 soup spoon of water mix with Sweet con powder and oyster source.
6. Fried for about 10min.

Sambal Prawns ~ Yummy ~

2007-10-26T13:05:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
Vege: 4 Surface bean

Meat: Prawn
Dry Shrimps (1 rice spoon)
Others: Chilies, Garlic, Ginger, Small Red Onion

Steps:
a. Cut the 4 Surface bean in slices
b. Cut the Shrimps into tinny small
c. Chilies, Garlic, Ginger and Small Red Onion – Cut into small tinny pieces
d. Prawn 6 nos. – break each prawn into 2 pieces

Then:

1. Cook Chilies, Garlic, Ginger and Small Red Onion with 1 soup spoon of oil.
2. Add in tinny shrimps together with the Sambal Mixtured above.
3. Add in Slices Prawns and fried together for 5min.
4. Add in the Slices 4 Surface bean together and cook them for 5 min.